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updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!Hi, With my latest upgrade on sid to iceweasel 2.0.0.2+dfg-1. i now have my firefox opening up to how to get rid of this annoying behavior and open to my local homepage (achieved by manually hitting thanks, mitchell -- Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!
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On 02/26/07 23:28, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With my latest upgrade on sid to iceweasel 2.0.0.2+dfg-1. i now
> have my firefox opening up to some hijacked web site called
> http://firefox/ which is a advertising site and it tries to popup
> open
> http://ads1.revenue.net/load/227700/index.html?0_R_NUM=9563354...
>
>
> how to get rid of this annoying behavior and open to my local
> homepage (achieved by manually hitting the house icon on the menu
> bar...).
What happens when you set the home page in Edit->Preferences?
> thanks, this is very windows like. is there a bug?
Yup.
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updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 00:28:14 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With my latest upgrade on sid to iceweasel 2.0.0.2+dfg-1. i now have my firefox opening up to
> some hijacked web site called
> http://firefox/
> which is a advertising site and it tries to popup open
> http://ads1.revenue.net/load/227700/index.html?0_R_NUM=9563354...
>
> how to get rid of this annoying behavior and open to my local homepage (achieved by manually hitting
> the house icon on the menu bar...).
I think you have two issues: The first one is a known bug of the latest
iceweasel version; see for example the report
#412344: A start-up page is http://firefox/
As far as I can tell, this overrides any kind of setting that you can
make (homepage, start with blank page, etc.) Since the bug is known I
hope it will be fixed soon.
The fact that you get served ads must be related to your ISP which seems
to redirect unresolvable host names to some advertisement site. This
might be a good moment to look into the adblock extension in combination
with filterset.G and/or a filtering proxy such as privoxy. (I also see
the http://firefox/ problem but I just get a "no such domain"
notification from privoxy.)
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Regards,
Florian
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updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 11:22 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 00:28:14 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > With my latest upgrade on sid to iceweasel 2.0.0.2+dfg-1. i now have my firefox opening up to
> > some hijacked web site called
> > http://firefox/
> > which is a advertising site and it tries to popup open
> > http://ads1.revenue.net/load/227700/index.html?0_R_NUM=9563354...
> >
> > how to get rid of this annoying behavior and open to my local homepage (achieved by manually hitting
> > the house icon on the menu bar...).
>
> I think you have two issues: The first one is a known bug of the latest
> iceweasel version; see for example the report
>
> #412344: A start-up page is http://firefox/
>
> As far as I can tell, this overrides any kind of setting that you can
> make (homepage, start with blank page, etc.) Since the bug is known I
> hope it will be fixed soon.
>
> The fact that you get served ads must be related to your ISP which seems
> to redirect unresolvable host names to some advertisement site. This
> might be a good moment to look into the adblock extension in combination
> with filterset.G and/or a filtering proxy such as privoxy. (I also see
> the http://firefox/ problem but I just get a "no such domain"
> notification from privoxy.)
>
http://firefox/ redirects to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ .
(Using Firefox 1.0.4 in Sarge.) This feature may be (likely) missing
from Iceweasel.
> --
> Regards,
> Florian
>
>
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updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!
On 2/27/07, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote:
> http://firefox/ redirects to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ .
> (Using Firefox 1.0.4 in Sarge.) This feature may be (likely) missing
> from Iceweasel.
No, it's a DNS issue. If "firefox" isn't found, the browser will
generally try "firefox.com", which sends you to the appropriate
mozilla server. It's possible that some ISPs are responding to all
lookups with a "valid" address, which just happens to be an
advertising site if there's no actual resolution.
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Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
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updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!
Michael Marsh wrote:
> On 2/27/07, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote:
>> http://firefox/ redirects to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ .
>> (Using Firefox 1.0.4 in Sarge.) This feature may be (likely) missing
>> from Iceweasel.
>
> No, it's a DNS issue. If "firefox" isn't found, the browser will
> generally try "firefox.com", which sends you to the appropriate
> mozilla server. It's possible that some ISPs are responding to all
> lookups with a "valid" address, which just happens to be an
> advertising site if there's no actual resolution.
>
I recently stumbled over a partial work-around if you are running your
own cacheing named, don't remember where I saw it. Set up bind as usual,
forwarding requests to the (broken) DNS-server at your ISP, then put the
following in named.conf:
zone "COM" { type delegation-only; };
zone "NET" { type delegation-only; };
This will make named not accept resource-records directly in top-level
zones ".com" and ".net", i.e. if there is no forwarded authority, named
will not accept the greedy ISPs suggestion that their advertising-server
is the correct address of your mistyped-url.
Now, zone "FIREFOX" is not mentioned there in my snippet above, so the
erroneous "domain" firefox would still slip through. I don't know if
`zone "." { type delegation-only }' would mess you up and/or give you
the desired NXDOMAIN (i.e non-existent-domain) reply. There are maybe
some legitimate records served directly by the root name servers that
you would loose access to. I believe it is worth a try though. Try
googling on the snippet, that should give you more info such as which
version of bind is required for this to work.
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Håkon Alstadheim
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updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!
Dear fellow debianers,
Thank all of you for answering my question.
It was very informative to see that the behavior arose from a
careless? configuration assumption that assumes
http://firefox/ will
resolve to the real mozilla site.
But more fundamentally-
1) why should my browser ever directed to mozilla.com at all?
2) And why now every restart of firefox?
I recall now:
After every previous debian firefox/iceweasle package update
i was also directed to mozilla.com
and only then only once. Afterwards it used my (local) home page -
just the way i wanted it to.
It is as if the browser is programmed
to "report back" to home at least once.
So I thought- maybe now, because it is unsuccessful in connecting to mozilla.com
the browser is repeatedly
trying to reach http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/.
So I tried to "report back home" manually
(ie i tried by log in directly to mozilla via
go to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/).
But alas. Still on every start of iceweasel
it goes to http://firefox/ which is resent to an advertizing search site.
Any more ideas?
Mitchell
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updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!
On 2/27/07, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> 1) why should my browser ever directed to mozilla.com at all?
It normally does it once after a version change, just to confirm.
> 2) And why now every restart of firefox?
It's a bug.
> Any more ideas?
Wait for the bug to be fixed. The appropriate people know about and
are working on fixing it. Until then, it's the occasional annoyance
you expect when running sid.
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Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
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updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!
Michael Marsh wrote:
> On 2/27/07, Mitchell Laks wrote:
>> 1) why should my browser ever directed to mozilla.com at all?
>
> It normally does it once after a version change, just to confirm.
>
>> 2) And why now every restart of firefox?
>
> It's a bug.
>
>> Any more ideas?
>
> Wait for the bug to be fixed. The appropriate people know about and
> are working on fixing it. Until then, it's the occasional annoyance
> you expect when running sid.
>
Maybe that should say, Until then, it's the occasional annoyance that
you "should be" expecting since you're running Sid.
Anyone who expects no bugs to ever surface Sid shouldn't be running it.
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updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!
See the below bugreport
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=412344
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Ken Wahl
updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!
Ok the bug report text solves the problem!
i replace the startup shortcut
firefox
with
firefox file://www.google.com
and now it starts properly.
thank you all.
By the way. I thank everyone for answering:
that shows respect.
but I do find that anyone who wrote
"hardy har har har -> its sid its broken, what do you expect"
without offering a solution, is not contributing seriously.
I am looking for creativity, and insight leading hopefully to a solution,
not derision for using my chosen desktop sid. I have used sid for 5 years.
I run more than 35 debian systems running sarge to sid 24/7 at multiple sites.
mitchell
On 13:21 Tue 27 Feb , Ken Wahl wrote:
> See the below bugreport
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=412344
> --
> Ken Wahl
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